Triple

T7666731
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow. E173640 entity
Predicate category P87 FINISHED
Object Brooks's laws and principles E229843 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Brooks's laws and principles | Statement: [Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow., category, Brooks's laws and principles]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brooks's laws and principles
Context triple: [Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow., category, Brooks's laws and principles]
  • A. Brooks's law chosen
    Brooks's law is the software engineering principle stating that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, highlighting the communication and coordination overhead of large teams.
  • B. Linus’s Law
    Linus’s Law is the open-source software development principle that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” emphasizing the power of many reviewers to quickly find and fix defects.
  • C. The Mythical Man-Month
    The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
  • D. Aitken’s Law
    Aitken’s Law is a phonological rule in Scots and Scottish English that governs when vowels are pronounced long or short depending on their phonetic and morphological environment.
  • E. Wirth’s law
    Wirth’s law is the observation that software tends to become slower more quickly than hardware becomes faster, often negating the benefits of improved computing performance.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c699562484819086752091e3164a27 elicitation completed
NER batch_69c701c1383c8190ab5bf803bd6211a9 ner completed
NED1 batch_69c89b260000819088d744ea8dc53cd2 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4 p.m.